David Corfield Bion and Peirce

Idea

Relate Bion’s ideas on formation in psychoanalysis to Peirce’s semiotics.

The Grid

A) beta-elements; B) alpha-elements; C) dream thoughts, dreams, and myths; D) preconception; E) conception; F) concept; G) a scientific deductive system; H) algebraic calculus.

(Beta elements “sense-impressions related to an emotional experince”)

Ways that the Grid resembles Peirce’s triadic semiotics.

A-H, following Kant’s Sensibility, Understanding, Reason

“defenses defend against the emergence of significance + meaning rather than to instincts per se.” (DIDTU)

Cassirer

“three hierarchic aspects of symbol formation - the expressive, representative, and conceptual.” (1-2-3)

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